Prosecutors today authorized charges against a 37-year-old Jackson man accused of stabbing a Jerome man in the neck and torso.

Troy Anthony Barlow is to be arraigned today on charges of felonious assault and assault with intent to murder, Jackson County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Mark Blumer said.

"This apparently was a serious effort to kill the victim," Blumer said, calling the confrontation an "unprovoked attack" on Daniel Harner, 62, of Jerome.

Harner was in serious condition today at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. Jackson police Lt. Christopher Simpson said Harner was seeing a specialist to treat the wounds in his neck. "It looks like he will make it," Simpson said.